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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

10 PRINT “AM I BASIC?”

20 INPUT N$

30 IF UCASE(N$) = “YES” THEN PRINT “CORRECT” : END

40 GOTO 10

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you actually know basic? Just wondering how someone goes about learning it and using it these days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I know it from back then and it can do some pretty impressive things. Not sure how I’d start from scratch these days but it’ll definitely be out there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for your response, I've been keeping my eye out for a reasonably priced C64 or something so I can get into it on some real hardware (I'm sure there are emulators out there but that's not as fun).

I feel like learning it would help with understanding some of what happens "under the hood" in modern languages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Last time I looked, both QB64 and FreeBasic were pretty good and had active forums and wikis etc

Both are nice implementations of QuickBasic for a number of platforms

https://qb64.com

https://www.freebasic.net

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you have a stomach or DNA you're acidic

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

whip out the litmus paper

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Phenolphthalein is acidic, so yes I guess?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It’s also a laxative.

I don’t think my statement above is relevant, just throwing it out there.